So far so good!

I have been walking for about 30 minutes each of the past four days and have cut way back on snacking. When I mentioned my goals to my husband, he "helped" by taping the refrigerator and snack cupboard closed (in jest).
I have enjoyed reading about everyone's progress and encouragement. This is a great group!

@trooworld Thanks! I look forward to getting to know you too.

@Katmary71 Thanks! Yes, I realized I gained the weight back because I stopped tracking my progress. I allowed myself to get too busy for too long, and fell back into my old junk food eating habits. It was depressing to think about how I allowed myself to get off track for so many months. I am including therapy as part of my self care this time around, and it has really been helpful. I am now at a point in life where my self care is my main priority so I can serve from a full cup, and truly start living my best life.

Username: krea4
Weigh in day: Monday
PW: 70.4 kg 155.2 lbs
CW: 70.2 154.8

Sorry it's a day late. No scale access yesterday.

vegan4lyfe2012
Sunday
PW: 195.0
CW: 197.6

TOM was visiting, so this was expected. Should course-correct by next week

This was accidentally posted to the Shrinking Assets team page:

Username: askewcr
Weigh in day: Saturday
SW: 274
PW: 253.5
CW: 252.5
LTD: 13.5

I'm happy to start another month. The miracle is I stuck with this challenge for the whole month! Yay!! It's going to be another amazing, successful month for us all! Let's go get it!!

@TeresaW1020 I am not surprised that your blood sugar spiked after rice, it's quite high on the GI scale. Have you tried Basmati rice? I'd be interested to see how that impacts your blood sugar, as it's a low-GI white rice. I switched to it years ago for that reason!

@bgame4 Great job on the walking! Consistency is key. Sounds like your hubby has a great sense of humour!

@Lulu_jo Wow, May really was good to you! That's a great quote, thanks for sharing.

@krea4 Nice loss!

@vegan4lyfe2012 Prepping your food is a great habit to focus on. I am always rushed in the mornings, I should do this as well!

@Cornanda Sounds like you had a nice active day to get back on track!
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I had a decent day yesterday. Was looking like I was going to be over on calories but did 45 mins of cardio so I ended up under by a fair way. I did some meditation on the Smiling Minds app, and found they have some that are for the whole family so I got the toddler involved and we pretended to be trees lol. It ended up being another fairly late night for no real reason. I need to get to bed earlier tonight, no excuses!

Today I am expecting a very similar day to yesterday. I like the pumpkin soup I made for lunch, but there's not enough protein in it really. The boiled egg snack helps a little but I was still under by a lot for the day. I need to look at what I can add to it for a protein boost next time I make it, maybe some chickpeas would be ok!
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Hey Team! I've started this exercise challenge and thought some of you might like to do it with me. I have no intention of killing myself by doing as many reps as shown on some of the exericses, but I do plan to give it my best effort. So who will do it with me?

Hey Team!
I hope you all had a great day!

I had a very intense workout yesterday, and was going to take today off but I decided to go for a walk.
I am still trying to find a snack that will give me enough fuel for energy for my intense workouts.
I have an intense workout tomorrow as part of my 10k training plan, and I will try something
with lots of protein. I also didn't sleep well last night and as a result I didn't have a lot of energy today.

I look forward to reading about your journeys during this week.
Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Happy June !

It has been a busy day. I just packed my boy off to summer camp. The house is very quiet!
Only a smidge of outdoor work in the yard, but tomorrow will be back to normal

@TeresaW1020
I love your tone up chart, and I am signing up to do this one!

Today was a break day from workouts, with all the running around, but I did get a swim in.

Food choices today were good, but over calories. Back on plan tomorrow!

Username: GabiV125
Check in day: Wednesday
PW: 130.2 lb
CW: 129.8 lb
Fingers crossed I’ll continue in the right direction; even with my turtle speed , a month should show.
Happy Wednesday all!

Hi all happy hump day!
The last couple of months I've been struggling I feel like a yo-yo. I'll do really good for about a week then I start sliding and I'll end the month right where I started!
So I'm going to try a different approach and start small which is hard for me because I'm an all in kinda girl! So this week I'm going to focus on getting up early and walking the dog, which I have the last two days and then sit on the porch and drink my coffee before my son gets up
And eat better even when I don't have the time to log! And Check in with all you Lovely people at least once a day.
Today has been good so far I walked almost 4 miles in an hour. I have a Husky so of course it wasn't enough lol
Enjoyed my coffee listening to the birds and now we have to start school
Have a great day all! Meet all you goals you can do it!

Username:@leonadixon
PW 5/25:225.3
Check in weight (6/2/2021): 226.3
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@broncobuddee I would like to change my weigh in date to Wednesdays if that is ok

Yesterday I did something I don't do. I got my walk in (yay!) And I jogged all my uphills. I don't jog. I don't run. I'm a walker lol. I jogged 12 hills on my walk... AND. IT. FELT. GOOD! 5 months ago I couldn't jog if I wanted to... But I said why not try and see if you can? And the fact that I could, made me try even harder. Very proud of myself and I'm going to do it again today. This journey has been tough. Physically and mentally... But as long as I don't give up, I will succeed. Only 65 pounds to reach my goal!

Happy Wednesday! You've got this!

If you quit now...

You'll end up right back where you first began. And when you first began you were desperate to be right where you are now.

Keep going...

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@19shmoo69 Are you focusing enough on protein with your strict Keto? I have been doing a lot of reading on this subject and for myself, I’m upping the protein and cutting down my fat intake. Look up Dr. Ted Naimen and his P.E. Diet if you haven’t yet. Good stuff!!

@TheGiwUp I would definitely recommend you up to your protein with your intense workouts. I hope you get a better night’s sleep tonight.

@AustinRuadhain Yayyy I’m glad that you will do the Tone Up challenge with me. I bailed on the May one with all those burpees, but I think this one is something I can at least give a good effort to. How long is your son away at camp? Enjoy your time!

@krea4 I thought the Beck Diet Solution book offered a lot of great insights and helped me recognize habits that weren’t helping me. Like standing at the fridge and eating or gulping my food down as fast as possible. It helped me with mindfulness. I hope you get a lot out of it.

@GabiV125 A loss is a loss and we celebrate them all!!

@trooworld Stress and vending machines are NOT a good match. But at least you didn’t blow it with lunch and dinner so that is a great positive. I LOVE your photos!!

@Jypsy1 Starting small is a great way to make progress because every small step forward will get you closer to your goals.

@askewcr Yayyy for getting on that treadmill!

@Cornadna I don’t know how many times I’ve come to Wednesday and realized that I only have two days to get some weight off. I wish I had an answer as to why we do what we do. At least, we are aware of it!

@Lulu_jo Wow jogging up 12 hills is incredible!! You should be very proud of yourself.



Hi Team! Not much going on today. I did a bunch of laundry and some church work. We have our vacation Bible Study at the end of the month, so there is lots of stuff to do. Tonight, we start VBS prep of all the decorations. This year I’m going to be a crew leader for the K-2nd grade. That should be crazy! I made a physical for July. I haven’t had one since I got pneumonia back in 2018 and hubby keeps bugging me about it. So, now I have a real motivation to show my doctor how much weight I’ve lost.

Goal Weight Challenge: KEEP MY EYE ON THE PRIZE!
Follow the Data Driven Fasting challenge fully Got my tracker and glucose meter ready for Saturday. Listened to a couple of good podcasts on the importance of eating more protein.
No snacking between meals No snacking today
No refined sugar No sugar
Workout (includes church cleaning): 21 Day Fix Dirty 30 and day two of June Tone Up
2021 Word: TRANSFORMATION

I'm not sure if it's considered strict. I call it strict. The only fat I eat is attached to the meat I eat. The problem I'm running into with it is it costs so much to eat like this.
With that said I thought of trying your workout chart but then I saw the word LUNGES. I have a balance problem with those things.

@TeresaW1020 I love the graphic about getting your mind right for June! It's exactly what I'm trying to do. Thanks also for sharing the exercise challenge, I think I will give it a go too. Not sure about 30 burpees by the end of the month but we'll see!

@19shmoo69 Glad that bible study was good!

@TheGlwUp Great job on the active recovery by going for a walk! I am the same with not getting enough sleep, it really affects you the next day!

@askewcr Oooooh enjoy getting your hair done! A nice reward for all your hard work recently!

@AustinRuadhain How long does your boy stay at summer camp? It's always intrigued me, as we don't have summer camps here in Australia, really!

@krea4 Slow and steady is the way to go for long-lasting results. We are here to cheer you on!

@GabiV125 Yay for the loss! All the little losses add up

@trooworld Gloomhaven is definitely still good with 2 people. My sister really didn't "get" it so we played without her the next day and it was much easier. Though I'm not sure that we started with the right character choices as we did struggle a bit, neither one of us like playing tanks so we spent a lot of time healing.
Sorry that the vending machine got you But one slip-up won't undo everything you've worked for. You can get yourself back on track!
Thanks for sharing the photos, they're wonderful!

@Jypsy1 Go you! Getting on a streak with something is really motivating, I think. I have a husky as well, I honestly don't know where they keep all their energy We have a large yard though, so we don't walk him often. When we do take him out, he doesn't really enjoy it that much and wants to go home. So we just play with him in the yard and get him running around to burn off some energy. He's 8 years old now, but still acts like a puppy!

@Cornanda It sounds like a June reset is just what the doctor ordered for you!

@Lulu_jo What a fantastic NSV! And what a great mindset too, why not try it?!
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I got a bit derailed yesterday. Hubby got a call that my laptop had finally come in so, bless his heart, he jumped in the car and drove the 600km round trip to collect it for me! That's true love. So my mum looked after the toddler for the afternoon until I was home from work. I got home late and the toddler was still sleeping so I had to wake him up otherwise he'd never go to bed that night. So then I had a very upset and clingy toddler for the rest of the afternoon! My sister dropped by and stayed until after 9pm. Hubby arrived home at 8:30pm and had brought us KFC for dinner (we don't have fast food restaurants in our town, the nearest ones being 300km away in the city he was going to so it's a bit of a treat for us when we do visit). So everything was just running really late and I started setting up the new laptop (which is amazing btw!) and the next thing I knew it was 11pm and I was still up, hadn't done any exercise for the day, and needed to already be in bed asleep. I did feel a bit proud that I didn't overindulge in the KFC, and still had a calorie deficit for the day regardless, but I hate when my day doesn't go as I planned it!

Today I MUST do some exercise. MUST. Yesterday I found myself snacking in the afternoon when I really shouldn't have been hungry, I think that is related to the lower protein in the last few days. So I need to work on my protein intake so I don't derail myself again.

Hubby will be going away this weekend & early next week to help his mum with planting their crop, so I will be off work to be on Mum duties, I'm looking forward to a few days with just the two of us and hope to be quite active in those days!

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